Sport: Driving the Dogs

The eleven yelping Siberian Huskies heard the crack of the whip and the
encouraging cries of Driver Bill Shearer: "Pick it up! Pick it up!" The
dogs were near the end of the third and decisive race of the New
England sled-dog championship at Jaffrey, N.H. last week. More
important, they were close to chow time. And then, plunk in the middle
of the snowy road, Driver Shearer saw a sight that chilled his spine: a
cat, lazily sunning itself.